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With the ICC London ExCeL show coming up in June (15-17), C4Central has learned that Just Add Power will be showing it’s second generation of equipment for European launch that we first saw at CEDIA 2009. While the details are slim at this point, we do know that “advancements in processor performance” and “AVC Codecs similar to those used by iTunes store for HD downloads” (and also Blu-ray discs – Editor) afford 1080p streaming with “near lossless results”. More information is due to be available closer to the show date this summer.  If you’re new to Just Add Power’s HDMI over IP and want to learn more (including Control4 drivers available), the video we shot from CEDIA last year, and the full press release is availble after the break.

Want to see a picture of who is at the door when the doorbell is pressed? Control4 can do that, and I’ll show you how in this write-up. Want to see a live video feed? Then read my driveway sensor review to see how I made that happen.

Ever wanted to know all the specs of that media player you’ve been checking out at the store?  Well, now there’s only one place to go. Iboum has a killer comparison table. Be mindful though that not all players have two-way feedback to Control4 for cover art selection of your movies via your touchpanels or TV screen. We’re working on compiling a special list of those in our upcoming shoot-out.

From time to time we will upload pictures of things we are working on to our Flickr account, which will rotate through the slide show here. You never know what you might see…

We get asked a lot for the the download links for Composer Home Edition. Here we will keep the post up-to-date with the latest links to download the version for your system: Composer Home Edition – Getting Started Composer Home Edition – User Guide 1.7.x Composer Home Edition 1.7.4.36 1.8.x Composer Home Edition 1.8.2.66691 2.0.x [...]

So you have your alarm system hooked up to Control4. Great, now you can arm and disarm it from your TV’s or touchscreens, but don’t short change yourself. There is a lot of other things you can do based on your alarm state. I’ll show one example based on the alarm system being armed to away, but you can choose any state and do a number of things.